When the earth was still flat

And the clouds made of fire

And mountains stretched up

To the sky sometimes higher

Folks roamed the earth

Like big rolling kegs

They had two sets of arms

They had two sets of legs

They had two faces peering

Out of one giant head

So they could watch

all around them

As they talked while they read

And they never knew

nothing of love

It was before the

origin of love

The origin of love

And there were three sexes then

One that looked like two men

Glued up back to back

Called the children of the sun

And similar in shape and girth

Were the children of the earth

They looked like two girls

Rolled up in one

and the children

Of the moon were like a fork

Shoved on a spoon

they were part sun

Part earth part daughter

Part son the origin of love

Now the gods grew quite scared

Of our strength and defiance

And Thor said

I'm gonna

Kill them all with my hammer

Like I killed the giants

And Zeus said no

you better let me

Use my lightening like scissors

Like I cut the legs off the whales

And dinosaurs into lizards

Then he grabbed up some bolts

And he let out a laugh

Said I'll split them right

Down the middle gonna cut them

Right up in half

and then storm clouds

Gathered above into great

Balls of fire and

then fire shot down

From the sky in bolts

like shining blades

Of a knife and it ripped

Right through the flesh

Of the children of the sun

And the moon and the earth

And some Indian god

sewed the wound up

Into a hole pulled it round

To our belly to remind us

Of the price we pay and Osiris

And the gods of the Nile

Gathered up a big storm

To blow a hurricane

to scatter us away

In a flood of wind and rain

And a sea of tidal waves

To wash us all away and

if we don't behave

They'll cut us down again

And we'll be hopping

round on one foot

And looking through one eye

Last time

I saw you

We had just split in two

You were looking at me

I was looking at you

You had a way so familiar

But I could not recognize

Cause you had blood on your face

I had blood in my eyes

But I could swear

by your expression

That the pain down in your soul

Was the same as the

one down in mine

That's the pain cuts

a straight line

Down through the heart

we called it love

So we wrapped our arms

around each other

Trying to shove ourselves

Back together

we were making love

Making love it was a cold

Dark evening such a long time ago

When by the mighty hand of Jove

It was the sad story

how we became

Lonely two legged creatures

It's the story of

the origin of love

That's the origin of love

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Origin of love